The Day My Brother Returned to the Sea by Brynne Levine The ocean is full of vagueness and ambiguity, a myriad of mysteries even a good detective could not solve. For example, it is incalculably large and also very big. How? There is so much we don’t know about it, so much we will never discover in our brief and above-sea-level lifetimes. However, there is one thing I am certain about regarding the ocean, one absolute definite, beyond any shadow of a doubt. My brother is there. He resides somewhere deep within its depths, somewhere untraceable and perhaps unreal. For one day, that sweet, young boy I thought I knew, returned to his home and hasn’t been seen ever since. Come back to us, Bengaldy. Even in my old, graying age I can remember the instance as if it were only yesterday; the day a small, young lad disappeared for what seems like forever. We were standing on the shoreline, side by side, looking out at the ocean. It was then that he turned his head 540 degrees to face me, his body still forward.
eat food off of the floor and oh how mother would scream. If God had given us more time together, imagine the foods he’d have been able to eat upon polished, hallowed grounds unknown! He would’ve feasted as a king upon My parents claim he never existed, that he was grounds fit for only his royalty! a figment of my imagination. But how can I so vividly remember the color of his eyes? Or the Oh how I laugh, how I yearn for the life we could not have. And yet, here I remain. Sitting way he would constantly stare into my soul and say no words, no words except for things on the shoreline, waiting for a day I may never see, because someone decided the ocean such as, “did you know the number 3?” or “I was cooler than seeing Star Wars. see you, and your nose looks bad today.” My childhood was built around this mystery, this The waves part now, the seafloor reveals itself monstrosity, this gremlin. to me. There’s a disturbing lack of crabs. I suppose I must rise, perhaps my brother awaits, I can’t help but wonder what the depths of for he will always... the deep blue had to offer that I did not. Did he find Atlantis? Was it like the movie? Is Spongebob for real? So many unanswered Wait. questions live with him down below. Poseidon calls his name and he always answers. And without so much as a sneeze, he walked towards the unforgiving waters, his feet planted firmly on the ocean floor until the sea ate him whole.
God, if he were here with me today, I can only imagine the adventures we’d have had in our lifetimes! I remember how he used to
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